Re: branch identification for patch review

To: Discussion of Development and Customization of the Red Hat Linux Installer <anaconda-devel-list redhat com>

Subject: Re: branch identification for patch review

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:37:04 -0500

On Wednesday, February 25 2009, Chris Lumens said:
> I think this is a good idea.
>
> > If anyone knows a magical git command that will do this automatically,
> > please speak up.
>
> There does not appear to be any way with git format-patch to
> automatically add this. At least, there's no arg or config option
> mentioned in the man page.
>
> I guess you could use --subject-prefix= to add the branch, but it's
> certainly not automatic.
You can do 'git config format.subjectprefix rhel5' or similar if you
keep a separate dir per branch. I don't know of anything off-hand for
doing it automagically :/
Jeremy